A MIT robotics that co-founded the manufacturer of Romberba, Irobot, says that the vision of Elon Musk of humanoid robots as a tote assistant is `pure fantasy thinking ” ‘

Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of the Creator of Sacuum Romberba, Irobot, said that the idea of ​​humanoid robots as a tote assistant, the future Elon Musk envisages, is a “pure fantastic thought”, partly because the robots are complicated in coordination.

“Today’s humanoid robots will not learn to be worthy despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps several billion dollars, given by VCs and large technological companies to pay for their training,” said Brooks in a blog article.

The feeling of touch is one of the most complex systems in the human body. The human hand contains 17,000 low threshold mechanics to collect light keys, which become densest towards the end of their fingers. The receptors in your hands react to a myriad of stimuli type pressure – vibrations in synchronization with 15 families of different neurons. All of this is added to a complex mechanism that humans want to reproduce in robots.

Although AI has been formed on large quantities of speech recognition and image processing, “we do not have such a tradition for touch data,” said Brooks, adding that he disputes the way Musk’s Tesla and IA societies are strongly trained their humanoid robots, with human tass videos, assuming that the disinterest of humans has significantly improved.

“If large technological companies and the VCS launching their large -scale money from humanoid training only spent 20% as much, but everything gave university researchers, I tend to think that they would get closer to their objectives faster,” said Brooks.

Musk said Tesla will start selling her Optimus robots in 2026, and that the company claims that Optimus is already performing tasks in Tesla factories. Meanwhile, the figure obtained a post-money assessment of $ 39 billion earlier this month after a new fundraising. But in the eyes of Brooks, all this investment is added to a very expensive training regime for humanoid robots which will not look like us exactly.

Brooks claims that successful robots in 15 years will not look like humans – and will wear wheels, multiple arms and perhaps five fingers, although they are always called “humanoid robots”. But as for today’s efforts, they will be largely relegated to history books.

“Much money will have disappeared, spent to try to tighten the performance, any performance, today’s humanoid robots. But these robots will have left for a long time and above all forgotten,” he said.

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